2 Samuel 22

1Cantó David a Yahvé las palabras de este cántico, cuando Yahvé lo hubo librado de todos sus enemigos, y de la mano de Saúl.

2Dijo: “Yahvé es mi Roca, mi fortaleza y mi libertador;

3Dios es mi Roca, a Él me acojo; Él es mi escudo y el cuerno de mi salvación, mi alto amparo, mi asilo. ¡Salvador mío! Tú me libraste de la violencia.

4Clamé alabándole, a Yahvé, y quedé salvo de mis enemigos.

5Ya me cercaban las ondas de la muerte, me aterraban torrentes perniciosos;

6ya me rodeaban las sogas del scheol, y me amenazaban los lazos de la muerte;

7cuando en mi angustia clamé a Yahvé, invoqué a mi Dios; y Él desde su templo oyó mi voz, y mi clamor llegó a sus oídos.

8Se conmovió y tembló la tierra, vacilaron los cimientos de los cielos, temblaron, porque se inflamó su ira.

9Subía humo de sus narices, y fuego devorador de su boca; ascuas encendidas salían de Él.

10E inclinó los cielos y descendió, teniendo espesa nube bajo sus pies.

11Subió sobre un querubín y voló, apareció sobre las alas del viento.

12Puso en torno suyo tinieblas por velo, masas de aguas, densos nubarrones.

13Al fulgor que le precedía se encendieron ascuas de fuego.

14Tronó Yahvé desde el cielo, el Altísimo hizo resonar su voz.

15Disparó saetas y los dispersó, rayos, y los consternó.

16Entonces apareció el fondo del mar se descubrieron los cimientos del orbe ante la voz increpadora de Yahvé, ante el resuello del furor de su ira.

17Extendió su mano desde lo alto, me tomó y me sacó de grandes aguas.

18Me libró de mi feroz enemigo, de los que me aborrecían, porque eran más fuertes que yo.

19Me habían sorprendido en el día de mi calamidad; pero Yahvé fue mi sostén.

20Me sacó fuera, a un lugar ancho, salvándome porque me amaba.

21Yahvé me ha recompensado según merecía mi justicia; según la inocencia de mis manos me dio el pago;

22pues he guardado los caminos de Yahvé, no me he apartado impíamente de mi Dios.

23Tenía ante mis ojos todos sus preceptos, y no me apartaba de sus mandamientos.

24Sin reproche anduve en su presencia, me guardé de hacer iniquidad.

25Yahvé me ha retribuido conforme a mi justicia, según mi inocencia ante sus ojos.

26Con el piadoso Tú te portas piadoso, con el nombre recto, rectamente;

27Tú eres limpio con el limpio, y al perverso lo tratas como tal.

28Tú salvas al pueblo humilde, y con tu mirada abates a los altivos.

29Tú, Yahvé, eres mi antorcha; Yahvé ilumina mis tinieblas.

30Contigo me arrojo sobre ejércitos, con mi Dios salto murallas.

31El camino de Dios es perfecto, y acrisolada la palabra de Yahvé; Él es un escudo para cuantos en Él confían.

32Pues ¿quién es Dios sino solo Yahvé? ¿Quién es Roca fuera de nuestro Dios?

33Mi fortaleza inexpugnable es Dios, quien hace perfecto mi camino.

34Me dio pies ligeros cual de ciervo y me colocó sobre las alturas;

35adiestró mis manos para la guerra, y mis brazos doblan el arco de bronce.

36Me diste el escudo de tu salvación, y tu benignidad me ha hecho grande.

37Ensanchaste el camino bajo mis pies, para que no resbalasen.

38Así perseguí a mis enemigos hasta destruirlos, y no me volví hasta acabar con ellos.

39Sí, acabé con ellos y los aplasté, de modo que no pueden ya levantarse; han caído debajo de mis pies.

40Me ceñiste de fortaleza para luchar, sometiste mis enemigos a mi poder,

41pusiste en fuga a mis contrarios; y así destrocé a los que me odiaban.

42Miraban en derredor, mas no hubo quien los salvase,

43triturábalos como polvo de la tierra; cual barro de las calles los aplastaba y los hollaba.

44Me libraste también de los revoltosos de mi pueblo, para jefe de naciones me elegiste. Pueblos que no conocía me sirven.

45Hombres extranjeros me dicen lisonjas, apenas oyen de mí, me obedecen.

46Los extranjeros palidecen y temblando salen de sus refugios.

47¡Viva Yahvé, y bendita sea mi Roca! Ensalzado sea Dios, la Roca de mi salvación,

48el Dios que me otorga venganza, y somete los pueblos a mis pies;

49el que me salva de mis enemigos. Pues Tú me ensalzas sobre los que se levantan contra mí; me libras del hombre violento.

50Por eso, te alabaré entre las naciones, y cantaré loores a tu nombre, Yahvé.

51Él salva maravillosamente a su rey, y usa de misericordia con su ungido David y su descendencia para siempre.”

1Locutus est autem David Domino verba carminis hujus in die qua liberavit eum Dominus de manu omnium inimicorum suorum, et de manu Saul.

2Et ait: [Dominus petra mea, et robur meum, et salvator meus.

3Deus fortis meus: sperabo in eum; scutum meum, et cornu salutis meæ: elevator meus, et refugium meum; salvator meus: de iniquitate liberabis me.

4Laudabilem invocabo Dominum, et ab inimicis meis salvus ero.

5Quia circumdederunt me contritiones mortis: torrentes Belial terruerunt me.

6Funes inferni circumdederunt me: prævenerunt me laquei mortis.

7In tribulatione mea invocabo Dominum, et ad Deum meum clamabo: et exaudiet de templo suo vocem meam, et clamor meus veniet ad aures ejus.

8Commota est et contremuit terra; fundamenta montium concussa sunt, et conquassata: quoniam iratus est eis.

9Ascendit fumus de naribus ejus, et ignis de ore ejus vorabit: carbones succensi sunt ab eo.

10Inclinavit cælos, et descendit: et caligo sub pedibus ejus.

11Et ascendit super cherubim, et volavit: et lapsus est super pennas venti.

12Posuit tenebras in circuitu suo latibulum, cribrans aquas de nubibus cælorum.

13Præ fulgore in conspectu ejus, succensi sunt carbones ignis.

14Tonabit de cælo Dominus, et excelsus dabit vocem suam.

15Misit sagittas et dissipavit eos; fulgur, et consumpsit eos.

16Et apparuerunt effusiones maris, et revelata sunt fundamenta orbis ab increpatione Domini, ab inspiratione spiritus furoris ejus.

17Misit de excelso, et assumpsit me, et extraxit me de aquis multis.

18Liberavit me ab inimico meo potentissimo, et ab his qui oderant me: quoniam robustiores me erant.

19Prævenit me in die afflictionis meæ, et factus est Dominus firmamentum meum.

20Et eduxit me in latitudinem: liberavit me, quia complacui ei.

21Retribuet mihi Dominus secundum justitiam meam: et secundum munditiam manuum mearum reddet mihi.

22Quia custodivi vias Domini, et non egi impie a Deo meo.

23Omnia enim judicia ejus in conspectu meo, et præcepta ejus non amovi a me.

24Et ero perfectus cum eo, et custodiam me ab iniquitate mea.

25Et restituet mihi Dominus secundum justitiam meam, et secundum munditiam manuum mearum in conspectu oculorum suorum.

26Cum sancto sanctus eris, et cum robusto perfectus.

27Cum electo electus eris, et cum perverso perverteris.

28Et populum pauperem salvum facies: oculisque tuis excelsos humiliabis.

29Quia tu lucerna mea, Domine, et tu, Domine, illuminabis tenebras meas.

30In te enim curram accinctus: in Deo meo transiliam murum.

31Deus, immaculata via ejus; eloquium Domini igne examinatum: scutum est omnium sperantium in se.

32Quis est Deus præter Dominum, et quis fortis præter Deum nostrum?

33Deus qui accinxit me fortitudine, et complanavit perfectam viam meam.

34Coæquans pedes meos cervis, et super excelsa mea statuens me;

35docens manus meas ad prælium, et componens quasi arcum æreum brachia mea.

36Dedisti mihi clypeum salutis tuæ, et mansuetudo tua multiplicavit me.

37Dilatabis gressus meos subtus me, et non deficient tali mei.

38Persequar inimicos meos, et conteram, et non convertar donec consumam eos.

39Consumam eos et confringam, ut non consurgant: cadent sub pedibus meis.

40Accinxisti me fortitudine ad prælium: incurvasti resistentes mihi subtus me.

41Inimicos meos dedisti mihi dorsum; odientes me, et disperdam eos.

42Clamabunt, et non erit qui salvet; ad Dominum, et non exaudiet eos.

43Delebo eos ut pulverem terræ; quasi lutum platearum comminuam eos atque confringam.

44Salvabis me a contradictionibus populi mei; custodies me in caput gentium: populus quem ignoro serviet mihi.

45Filii alieni resistent mihi; auditu auris obedient mihi.

46Filii alieni defluxerunt, et contrahentur in angustiis suis.

47Vivit Dominus, et benedictus Deus meus, et exaltabitur Deus fortis salutis meæ.

48Deus qui das vindictas mihi, et dejicis populos sub me.

49Qui educis me ab inimicis meis, et a resistentibus mihi elevas me: a viro iniquo liberabis me.

50Propterea confitebor tibi, Domine, in gentibus, et nomini tuo cantabo:

51magnificans salutes regis sui, et faciens misericordiam christo suo David, et semini ejus in sempiternum.]

1And David spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

2And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my saviour.

3God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.

4I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

5For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.

6The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.

7In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry to my God: and he will hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come to his ears.

8The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains were moved, and shaken, because he was angry with them.

9A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of his mouth: coals were kindled by it.

10He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

11And he rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the wings of the wind.

12He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.

13By the brightness before him, the coals of fire were kindled.

14The Lord shall thunder from heaven: and the most high shall give forth his voice.

15He shot arrows and scattered them: lightning, and consumed them.

16And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the spirit of his wrath.

17He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me out of many waters.

18He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

19He prevented me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my stay.

20And he brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me, because I pleased him.

21The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands he will render to me.

22Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

23For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have not removed from me.

24And I shall be perfect with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

25And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.

26With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect.

27With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

28And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou wilt humble the haughty.

29For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my darkness.

30For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the wall.

31God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.

32Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?

33God who hath girded me with strength, and made my way perfect.

34Making my feet like the feet of harts, and setting me upon my high places.

35He teacheth my bands to war: and maketh my arms like a bow of brass.

36Thou hast given me the shield of my salvation: and thy mildness hath multiplied me.

37Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not fail.

38I will pursue after my enemies, and crush them: and will not return again till I consume them.

39I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall not rise: they shall fall under my feet.

40Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.

41My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that hated me, and I shall destroy them.

42They shall cry, and there shall be none to save: to the Lord, and he shall not hear them.

43I shall beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I shall crush them and spread them abroad like the mire of the streets.

44Thou wilt save me from the contradictions of my people: thou wilt keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: the people which I know not, shall serve me,

45The sons of the stranger will resist me, at the hearing of the ear they will obey me.

46The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their distresses.

47The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my salvation shall be exalted:

48God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me,

49Who bringest me forth from my enemies, and liftest me up from them that resist me: from the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.

50Therefore will I give thanks to thee. O Lord, among the Gentiles, and will sing to thy name.

51Giving great salvation to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed, and to his seed for ever.